Lev Semënovich Berg (Russian: Лев Семёнович Берг, 1876, Bessarabia - December 24, 1950) was a Sovietgeographer, biologist. He was an author of macroevolution theory of Nomogenesis (Berg, L. S. Nomogenes ili evolutsia na osnove zakonomernostey. Trudy geograficheskogo instituta. T. 1. Peterburg: Gos. Izd 1922). 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Old map of Bessarabia Bessarabia or Bessarabiya (Basarabia in Romanian, Besarabya in Turkish) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia annexed by Russia in 1812. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ... Macroevolution is the concept that evolution of species and higher taxa is the result of large-scale changes in gene-frequencies over time. ...